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Economy: Bush minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Stocktaking Note: Matter for Ministerial Attention") [issues likely to come up for ministerial attention in first quarter of 1981] [declassified 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T639/35 (PO-CH-GH 0045 PART B f64)
Editorial comments:

Document from Private Office files of Geoffrey Howe, released to the Margaret Thatcher Foundation under Freedom of Information. These files were eventually deposited at the National Archives. Full file here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 34pp
Themes: Education, Social security & welfare, Economic policy - theory and process, Agriculture, Industry, Monetary policy, Privatized & state industries, Pay, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Trade, Energy, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Middle East), Commonwealth (South Africa), European Union (general), Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Defence (general)